News

9 Mar 22

Man v Fat Football – a brilliant partnership

Thanks to ITV Calendar news for covering our partnership with Sheffield & Wakefield MVF FC – have a read: https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2022-03-08/fat-footballers-team-up-to-help-sheffield-food-bank  

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3 Mar 22

Why I volunteer – Jane’s story

I’m Jane and I’m one of the phoneline volunteers. I started volunteering at S6 Foodbank in November 2020 as my neighbour was saying how the foodbank needed more volunteers as the demand during covid for people needing support was rising so quickly. I chose to help with the phonelines as I can be anywhere as […]

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9 Feb 22

Hitting £100k in our fundraising 🎉

Thanks to The Star, Sheffield for their continued support for our #OneMillionMeals campaign, and for the write-up of us reaching £100k (inc gift aid) in our fundraising efforts . Here’s their latest article: https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/people/sheffield-foodbank-reaches-ps100000-fundraising-milestone-amid-concerns-over-energy-price-rise-3561213

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4 Feb 22

Thank you to Sheffield’s Sikh community

We are blessed at foodbank to receive offers of support from across Sheffield, from so many different communities, groups, families and businesses.   Earlier this year, the Sikh community reached out to us to offer support, by way of food and monetary donations. The donation point in their temple, has an ever growing pile of […]

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21 Jan 22

Cash raising calendars 🗓️

Thanks to the brilliant team at The Famous Sheffield Shop for producing their 2022 fundraising calendar. The calendars are now sold out, and their sale raised a grand total of £664 to donate to us – fantastic! Thanks to those who contributed photos, and to everyone who bought a calendar – you are all helping […]

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21 Jan 22

Grenoside Christmas fundraising 🎄

Thank you to the team from St Mark’s Church, Grenoside, Sheffield and the Grenoside Christmas Tree Trail and Festival Committee for their support.   Their Christmas 2021 event raised a considerable sum, and the committee donated just over £700 to support our work – fantastic!   Thank you to everyone involved 💚  

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4 Jan 22

The Quality Street house 🍬

The amazing Kayleigh, and her neighbours on Boyce Street in Walkley, transformed their road into a real Quality Street this Christmas! Collectively, they raised over £3500 to support us – incredible! Here’s one of many articles written about their campaign, which also got national press and TV coverage. https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/people/boyce-street-sheffield-neighbours-transform-walkley-street-into-giant-quality-street-box-to-help-s6-foodbank-3497812  

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8 Dec 21

Thanks to the Oughtibridge Wreath Pixies!

Huge thanks to the fabulous Oughtibridge Wreath Pixies!   For the past 9 years they have organised a weekend of wreath making, foraging for all the materials and providing refreshments during a 2 hour session.   Each year the monies go to a charity. Last year they donated £605 to us, and this year they […]

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3 Dec 21

Community kindness in action!

We LOVE it when the business community comes together to support us!   Last week, Thornsett Properties reached out to ask what our items most in need were. They had a word with their friends at Singh’s Premier, and this pallet of food turned up at foodbank today.   Kindness in action! Thanks so much […]

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2 Dec 21

Amazing support from Morrisons!

A big thank you to Morrisons for donating 6 pallets over the last 4 weeks (24 pallets in total!) Making sure people don’t go hungry in Sheffield this Christmas time.

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